I Practice Farming While the Rest Cultivates

"[Holy Baby Fruit, Fifth Grade Spirit Fruit, Superior Quality, planted in an environment rich in Yin Qi and Yin soil, cultivated with infant's essence blood, soul, and resentful will. After consumption, it can enhance spiritual sense, while also being the main ingredient in the concoction of the Saint Baby Pill.]"

"[During the mother plant's growth stage, it devours two offspring fruits and uses a massive amount of pure herbal spiritual energy to hasten maturity, thus elevating the quality of the spirit fruit to superior rank. With the aid of secret techniques, it can be refined into an external incarnation.]"

"Indeed so,"

Lu Xuan nodded lightly, then his gaze fell on the White Light Group that appeared alongside.

"The main material for the transformation is already in hand, as for the refining secret technique..."

"Light Group, aid me!"
Read exclusive chapters at My Virtual Library Empire

He touched the surface of the light group with the gentlest gesture, filled with intense anticipation.

In an instant, the light group silently shattered, turning into a sky full of tiny light points.

The light points quickly condensed into an ancient chart phantom and instantly entered Lu Xuan's body.

Simultaneously, a thought flashed through his sea of consciousness.

"[Gained one Fifth Grade Holy Baby Fruit, obtained a Seventh Grade Secret Technique 'Spirit Infant Holy Proliferation Technique' (Remnant).]"

As the thought dissipated, a page of ancient grey chart appeared in front of Lu Xuan.

From the chart surged a dark glow, depicting thousands of fierce-looking infants, some laughing, some in pain, displaying a variety of expressions.

Their originally cute expressions, set against their fierce appearances, seemed imbued with a chilling Yin Qi and a heaven-towering resentful aura.

Lu Xuan focused his mind on the grey ancient chart before his eyes, and instantly understood its details.

"['Spirit Infant Holy Proliferation Technique', an incomplete Seventh Grade Secret Technique from the ancient Evil Sect, the Thousand Infant Sect, records a secret technique for refining an external incarnation.

This technique can use certain external objects to refine a simple external incarnation, whose strength, talent, and spiritual intelligence depend on the external object and the cultivator.]"

"A Seventh Grade Secret Technique, though incomplete, happens to contain the transformation technique I need."

"Truly, it is the Light Group!"

Lu Xuan exclaimed in surprise, never having expected a Fifth Grade Holy Baby Fruit to yield this incomplete Seventh Grade Secret Technique.

As for the ability of the secret technique to refine incarnations, it was not without precedent—after all, the superior quality Holy Baby Fruit had that effect, so it was quite reasonable for the Light Group to project the corresponding secret technique.

"It's like being offered a pillow when I'm dozing off."

Lu Xuan was extremely pleased with this treasure item and probed it with his spiritual sense.

The expressions of the myriad infants on the ancient chart subtly shifted, a stream of pure Yin Qi seeped from the chart into his sea of consciousness, bringing with it a vast amount of information.

How to separate a strand of divine soul from the main body, how the divine soul integrates with the incarnation's external object, the methods for refining incarnations with different treasures items...

After absorbing for a long time, Lu Xuan opened his eyes and exhaled deeply.

"Truly a secret technique from an ancient Evil Sect, allowing a cultivator in the Nascent Soul Stage to refine an external incarnation."

According to the record on the ancient chart, he could refine this superior grade Holy Baby Fruit into a simplified external incarnation.

The incarnation would possess certain autonomous consciousness, closely related to the main body, yet under the main body's absolute control, and depending on the treasure item's rank and type, would have varying strength and talent.

If the incarnation perished, the main body's divine soul would suffer some damage.

"Ordinarily speaking, one would need to reach the Nascent Soul Realm to have the techniques and capabilities to refine an incarnation, and it's only at the level of the incarnation realm that one could easily separate out a true external incarnation."

"Such an incarnation would have a completely independent consciousness, capable of autonomously exploring secret lands, engaging in battles, cultivating, but if the original body were damaged, dropping in realm, or if the incarnation encountered an incredible opportunity and its strength surpassed the original body, there would be the risk of the incarnation overturning the original."

"However, this 'Spirit Infant Holy Proliferation Technique' produces a castrated version of an incarnation, lacking the divine skills of a true external incarnation, its strength subject to the treasure item used, and only endowed with a certain degree of autonomous consciousness, so there's no worry about it taking over the nest."

"It's a case of gains and losses."

Lu Xuan muttered to himself.

After gaining a thorough understanding of this secret technique for avatar creation, he developed the idea of giving it a try.

Following the soul-splitting method recorded in the secret technique, he separated a strand of his divine soul and merged it into the superior-quality Holy Baby Fruit before him.

Indistinctly, he could feel a faint connection between them as if it were there but also not.

"Next, I need to properly refine it into an avatar."

Lu Xuan thought to himself.

Over the next two months, in addition to cultivating spiritual plants, he focused all of his attention on the Holy Baby Fruit, nurturing the embryo spirit fruit daily with his divine soul and spiritual sense.

"Finally, it's successfully refined."

Lu Xuan looked at the significantly transformed spirit fruit before him and exhaled a sigh of relief.

Compared to its blurry form when it was plucked, the Holy Baby Fruit had transformed altogether into a delicate figure resembling a small person, with facial features that were about seventy to eighty percent similar to Lu Xuan's, though it exuded a faint cold yin aura, giving it a somewhat sinister appearance.

He followed the secret technique, connecting his mind with the avatar of the spirit fruit, and at a thought, the avatar swelled up, rapidly growing to be of the same height as him, with a body shape and appearance that were nearly indistinguishable from his own.

"Fellow Daoist, greetings."

Lu Xuan said with a gentle greeting.

"Fellow Daoist, greetings."

The spirit fruit avatar's dull eyes suddenly lit up as it saluted with clasped hands.

"Is this the external embodiment of myself?"

Gazing at his duplicate before him, Lu Xuan felt a hint of strangeness along with a sense of wonder.

With a thought, the spirit fruit avatar before him began to make various gestures according to his thoughts, completely controlled by his mind.

As he continued to give orders and guide it, the spirit fruit avatar appeared more and more lively, autonomously entering the spirit field to inspect.

The Thunder Dragon Behemoth Cub, as usual, approached, seeming to sense something, circling the avatar over and over, looking at its appearance with puzzled eyes, sniffing around incessantly.

"It doesn't have a high level of autonomous consciousness, but it can be trained slowly. It qualifies as a high-rank puppet with not a low level of spiritual intelligence."

Lu Xuan observed silently.

Through continuous experimentation and exploration, he discovered that the closer the spirit fruit avatar was to him, the more freely he could control it. However, when the distance reached tens to hundreds of miles, his control drastically weakened.

The avatar had an ordinary human body, with spiritual power probably around the Early Core Formation stage, and its spiritual sense was relatively weak.

Perhaps it was because it was refined from the Holy Baby Fruit, but its body contained a rich and pure yin qi and could also absorb yin attribute spiritual energy from the Underworld Spirit Field.

"It actually has an uncommon talent for the evil path, a natural embryo of an evil cultivator."

Lu Xuan, looking at the spirit fruit avatar walking toward him, showed a trace of a smile on his face.

"Just right, the rewards of Technique Divine Ability from those weird spiritual plants can be given to this avatar for cultivation."

He thought to himself.

In his hands, he currently possessed three superior evil path cultivation techniques, "Blood God Nerve" and "Netherworld True Water Prohibition Law," as well as "Soul-Seizing Scripture," and also treasured items like the Yin Evil Bottle, Taiyin Wooden Box, and Multi-armed Corpse Slave, which were ideal to enhance the strength of this avatar.

After all, he was just an ordinary Spirit Plant Master who did not excel in fighting law and believed in kindness; it was essential to stay consistent with his persona.

"Now, there's an important matter that needs to be verified: whether the spiritual plants cultivated by this avatar can yield Light Cluster rewards, and if so, will it affect the rank of the rewards?"

Lu Xuan pondered.